Table 1.
Categories and numbers of survey participants1.
Table 2.
Survey questions.
Fig 1.
Importance of the issue of using animals in research.
Table 3.
Importance of, knowledge about arguments for and against, and ability to make informed decisions about using animals in research.
Fig 2.
Dietary and animal research experience influences on importance of animal research.
(A) Students and diet. (B) Faculty and diet. (C) Students and animal research experience. (D) Faculty and animal research experience.
Fig 3.
Knowledge about animal research.
(A) Knowledge about facts and arguments for and against and about rules and regulations governing animal research. (B) Knowledge about rules and regulations that protect the welfare of animals in research.
Fig 4.
Percent of respondents answering “Nothing” about knowledge of rules and regulations, and “Don’t know” about adequacy of enforcement of laws, review of proposals, minimizing harm, and sufficiency of rules.
Table 4.
Among those expressing an opinion, distribution of ratings of knowledge of rules and regulations, and adequacy of enforcement of laws, review of proposals, minimizing harm, and sufficiency of rules (all exclude respondents answering “Nothing” for knowledge of rules, or “Don’t know” for other questions).
Fig 5.
Possession of information necessary to make informed decisions about animal research.
Fig 6.
(A) Prevalence of sources of information about animals in research. (B) Trust in sources to provide unbiased information. (C) Sufficiency of information from each source. For B and C, data is shown as mean ± standard deviation.
Table 5.
Trust in sources of information about animal research as a function of respondent support for animal research.